Publications, tools, learning materials and articles on citizen science, contacts at Lithuanian research institutions and international platforms.
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INFODEMIJA, Mykolo Romerio universitetas, 2026
An online platform (in Lithuanian) for exploring four segments of Lithuania's population by their views on science and climate change, with their profiles and information channels. It offers five communication strategies and 73 international examples of good practice.
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Labenne, 2025 / European Citizen Science
An Excel-based tool for organisations (research organisations, libraries, museums, NGOs, companies) to assess how far citizen science is embedded in their work. It covers four areas from the framework of the TIME4CS project, in which Kaunas University of Technology also took part: research, education and awareness, support resources and infrastructure, policy and assessment. Results appear as soon as it is filled in.
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Mačiulienė, 2026 / FIDELIS
A two-page handout from the FIDELIS training for repositories: how a busy researcher reads, how to design pages and emails for them, an invitation text and five questions for conversations with depositors.
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ECSA / KTU biblioteka
The ten principles of citizen science by the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), in Lithuanian. The English original is on the ECSA website.
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CLIMAS
A set of tools developed within the CLIMAS project to support the organization of Climate Assemblies and other deliberative processes.
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LibOCS
An open access self-paced course for anyone interested in citizen science.
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LibOCS
An open access resource with materials covering seven citizen science and open science topics.
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LibOCS
More than 100 useful citizen science resources in the Zenodo repository.
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Scholarly Communication and Information Centre of the Library
The library website covers the principles and types of citizen science, success stories and advice on how to start citizen science activities (in Lithuanian). Specialists of the Scholarly Communication and Information Centre advise on open science questions.
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Citizen Science Centre (Faculty of Creative Industries)
The centre brings together learning resources and expert support for the VILNIUS TECH community and partners, and promotes public engagement in research and the principles of responsible research and innovation (RRI). Head of the centre: Prof. Dr. Aelita Skaržauskienė.
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Citizen Science Centre (KTU Library)
The centre informs the university community and the public about ways to start and run citizen science projects, collects and shares good practice, and organises training, meetings and discussions.
Support at institutions
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A membership association bringing together citizen science researchers, practitioners and organisations in Europe. It runs thematic working groups, holds a conference every two years and authored the Ten Principles of Citizen Science.
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A platform managed by ECSA (formerly EU-Citizen.Science) where you can find citizen science projects, resources and training materials, and register your own project or organisation.
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A collaboration of the world's regional and national citizen science associations and their members, advancing the contribution of citizen science to global sustainability.
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A professional society for people working in research done by, for and with members of the public. It holds the annual CAPS conference, publishes the open access journal Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, and runs working groups and toolkits.
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A large online platform where volunteers help researchers classify and analyse data. Researchers can build their own project with its project builder.
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A project finder for citizen science: participants search projects by topic and location, and researchers can list their own project to reach participants.
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A global platform and community for nature observations: participants record plants, animals and fungi, and the community helps identify species. The data can be used in biodiversity research.
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A platform for creating and managing citizen science projects: building data collection forms, managing participants and handling data.
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KTU / LibOCS, 2026
A monograph in Lithuanian published by Kaunas University of Technology, based on research from the LibOCS project. Reviewed by representatives of the Lithuanian Citizen Science Association.
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Butkevičienė, Mačiulienė, Mickevičiūtė, Vaidelytė, Vitkauskaitė-Ramanauskienė, Balázs, 2022
A monograph in Lithuanian (Kaunas: Technologija) on citizen science as a way for citizens and scientists to work together on social problems: the concept, the ecosystem, participants, processes and possible applications in Lithuania.
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Wehn, Fraisl, Masó, ..., Butkevičienė et al., 2026
An article in Environmental Management on how communities of practice help bring together dispersed knowledge about citizen science and citizen observatories, drawing on the four communities set up in the WeObserve project. Eglė Butkevičienė is among the co-authors.
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Skaržauskienė, Mačiulienė, Wildevuur et al., 2025
An article in the Journal of Enterprising Communities on perceptions, attitudes, concerns and motivation regarding the development of the citizen science ecosystem in four countries, including Lithuania.
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Filipeti, Mumelaš, 2025
An article in Information Development: focus groups were used to study which competencies librarians in Lithuanian academic and public libraries need to organise citizen science activities.
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Uogintė, Byčenkienė, Davtalab et al., 2024
An article in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment: in 2022 and 2023 litter and its sources on Lithuanian riversides were studied together with schoolchildren.
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Birk, Tõiste, Ignat, Kaseorg et al., 2024
An article in LIBER Quarterly on citizen science practices at five Baltic universities, including Kaunas University of Technology and Vytautas Magnus University, and the experience of the LibOCS project.
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Froeling, Gignac, Toran et al., 2024
An article in Environmental Research on the CitieS-Health project, in which epidemiological studies in five European countries, including Lithuania, were co-created with citizens at every stage of the research.
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Rozenberga, Saviča, 2023
A poster by University of Latvia researchers on collaboration between researchers, amateur scientists and memory institutions in the Baltic States.
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Kocman, Righi, Errandonea et al., 2023
An article in Frontiers in Environmental Science presenting a citizen science toolkit for environmental epidemiology. The tools were developed and used in a pilot study in Kaunas among others, and one of the authors is at Vytautas Magnus University.
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Klimczuk, Butkevičienė, Kerla, 2022
The editorial of a Frontiers in Sociology research collection on how citizen science and social innovation relate to each other.
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Mačiulienė, Butkevičienė, 2022
An article in Sustainability reviewing the citizen science ecosystem in Lithuania and its contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals. The ecosystem is at an early stage and fragmented, with few national projects.
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Gražulevičienė, Andrušaitytė, Rapalavičius et al., 2022
An article in BMC Public Health: using data from the CitieS-Health pilot study in Kaunas, it examines environmentally related health risks in men and women.
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Skaržauskienė, Mačiulienė, 2021
An article in the journal Sustainability on stakeholder perceptions, motivations and barriers to taking part in citizen science initiatives that address sustainability challenges in Lithuania.
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Gražulevičienė, Andrušaitytė, Rapalavičius, 2021
An article in Sustainability on the outcomes of an environmental epidemiological study carried out with residents of Kaunas in 2019-2021, including what the participants themselves gained from taking part.
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Gražulevičienė, Andrušaitytė, Dėdelė et al., 2021
An article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on the links between neighbourhood environmental quality, physical activity and blood pressure in Kaunas. Researchers shaped the research questions and data collection together with participants.
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Vohland, Göbel, Balázs et al., 2021
A chapter of the open access book The Science of Citizen Science, reviewing citizen science across European countries. On Lithuania it notes that the term "piliečių mokslas" is still new and mentions projects such as Rūšių ralis and Bronės Pajiedaitės takais.
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Tauginienė, Butkevičienė, Vohland et al., 2020
An article in Palgrave Communications on citizen science in the social sciences and humanities.
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Gražulevičienė, Andrušaitytė et al., 2020
An article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: a citizen science study in Kaunas examined how neighbourhood quality and green spaces relate to the risk of hypertension.
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Gražulevičienė, Andrušaitytė, Dėdelė et al., 2020
An article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health with first-year findings of the CitieS-Health pilot study in Kaunas. The research question on hypertension across districts was formulated by the residents themselves.
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Balčiauskas, Balčiauskienė, Litvaitis, Tijušas, 2020
An article in Sustainability: observations by hunters, foresters and other volunteers showed a four-fold increase in lynx numbers in Lithuania, and the data supported a review of the species' conservation status.
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Balčiauskas, Balčiauskienė, Litvaitis et al., 2020
An article in Wildlife Research: in 2015-2018 hunters, foresters and farmers reported wolf observations, which the Ministry of Environment accepted as a complement to other surveys for wolf management policy.
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Vandzinskaitė, Kobierska, Schmeller et al., 2010
An article in Diversity comparing volunteer involvement in biodiversity monitoring in Lithuania, Poland and Denmark, and the historical, cultural and social factors behind it.
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Bell, Marzano, Cent, Kobierska et al., 2008
An article in Biodiversity and Conservation on volunteer organisations in biodiversity recording and monitoring. One of the cases studied is the Lithuanian Ornithological Society.
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KTU biblioteka, 2022
An interview in Lithuanian with Dr. Monika Mačiulienė on what citizen science is, why it matters and how it can strengthen links between universities, libraries and communities. An English version is on the LibOCS website.
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EU-Citizen.Science, 2020
A conversation with two Lithuanian citizen science leaders about the state of the field, its challenges and the role of the EU-Citizen.Science platform.
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